"Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power."

"It is a humble truth that when purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone."

"The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told."

"It is a humble truth that energy directed with unwavering focus can bend the arc of destiny — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To walk the path of enlightenment means the silence between the notes creates the music."

"The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."